In loving memory
One of the sad realities of cat ownership and caretaking is the time to say goodbye.
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Here in our Retirement Village, the main goal is have the cats in our care live out a healthy and happy end to their lives. We work closely with our vets to ensure we do what's best for the cats in our care, this includes operations, treatments and medications to help ease their ailments. Unfortunately, sometimes the best thing we can do is let them be at peace.
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We have a lovely collection of memorial stones in our village to honour those we have loved and lost, but since the rise in popularity on Social Media, we are aware that viewers and visitors have become fond of our Village cats and also feel the loss.
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So this page is dedicated to our past Villagers.
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Please note this will be updated as and when we are able to - it has started from our last memorial video in late August 2024.
If you or someone you know is struggling with the loss of a pet, Blue Cross have a fantastic pet bereavement support service and we highly suggest you check them out at : https://www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-bereavement-and-pet-loss
Bronwyn
Bronwyn arrived in late November 2023, a skinny, balding and incredibly flea ridden little older lady, who was found wandering the streets and brought into a vet practice.
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Despite her raggedy appearance, Bronwyn was a sweet but quite strong minded cat, who took some time to settle into Village life. As we helped her gain weight, helped her with her flea problem and nursed her back to health, we realised she was maybe not quite as old as we thought originally. Featured on Dr Scott's Rescue Vet Show, we set out looking for a home for Bronwyn, but she made it clear she did not want to leave Village life.
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Soon, she came down with an incredibly bad case of cat flu, something that she really struggled to bounce back from. She became one of our 'chronic flu cats', blessing us with a snotty nose every morning! But she was happy, bright and didn't pose a danger to the others. In early December 2024, after another bout of flu, she started to drop weight dramatically and refused all of her medications, she was showing signs of severe gingivostomatitis, and her mouth pain was becoming unmanageable.
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In the new year of 2025, she unfortunately took another dive in weight and behaviour, we were out of options and unable to manage her pain, she was no longer happy, nor eating and was withdrawing from us. The decision to let her go was made in mid January 2025.
Kupala "Koop"
Kupala arrived in the midst of a Covid-19 lockdown, June 2020, with her two litter brothers, Xbalanque "XBie" & Hanahpu "Han" (Named after gods - and boy did they know it!). An incredibly friendly girl from the start, she was already being medicated for kidney disease, so we continued her care from the start.
Unfortunately, we lost Han not long after they settled into Village life, and XBie around a year later, but Koop was never bonded with her brothers and once she was granted the space to be without them, she was off! Never to be seen around her brothers again! A true independent queen.
Koop was with us nearly 5 years without many hiccups in her health, taking her medication well and always behaving herself for vets. She started to show her age (nearly 20!) in late 2024, and declined rapidly in the new year. She was seen for her constant weight loss and was found to have some further underlying health problems that we would be unable to treat. So we let her go peacefully before she declined further in mid January 2025.
Titch
Titch came to us in early 2013 as a young blind cat suffering badly from cat flu, given a two week life expectancy due to her illness, she was placed in our Village for rest and made comfortable.
She soon beat the odds and showed us that she in fact, was much younger than originally expected and soon started to thrive in the Village.
Whilst she never fully overcame her cat flu, we helped keep it at bay and she continuously beat several illnesses life threw at her!
From surviving persistent infections as an aftermath of Cat Flu as a kitten, operations to open her ear canals in order to remove a mass, to a ruptured and later removed eyeball, Titch beat them all and carried on being a favourite amongst visitors and volunteers. So much so that she was a sponsor cat with a long line of fans!
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Unfortunately she started to slow down in November and it was clear something was going wrong, so during a routine check up, it was found she had a huge liver tumour and there was nothing we could do to help her. The difficult decision was made to let her be a peace in December 2024.
Twinkle
Twinkle came to us with her sister, Snowflake, in Feb 2023. Fiercy protective of Snowflake, Twinkle was the first Villager in years who fought our vets tooth and nail and actually earned herself a behaviour caution!
Not long later, we lost Snowflake to Kidney failure and Twinkle soon relaxed and ended up showing us she was one of the friendliest little girls in our Village.
She started to show signs of slowing down at the end of November 2024 and unfortunately was found to have cancer on her kidneys so we had to say goodbye before she suffered further.
Coco
Coco arrived late October 2024 in the hopes of settling in our Village once her vet checks were complete.
Unfortunately, it was clear something wasn't quite right with Coco and tests were done to determine what needed doing. Whilst we waited, we allowed her time to settle in our Village.
It was later shown that she had multiple illnesses, some that we simply could not help her with and her quality of life was severely impacted so we had to let her go.
